Homoiotéleuton

A Note

When I became an English prof
And started reading to expand my view,
I learned a lot of nifty stuff
From subtle scholars, Oh, so new.

For Rhetoric, the writers in 3-C's announce,
Is brother to the ancient rune
And sister to the sun-bleached skull,
the skylark, phases of the moon.

To all things, anthropology and law,
The muse of Rhetoric is prime-
Linguistics, sociology and gym,
Histology, geology, and thyme.

The lowly ballad is rhetorical,
And sonnets only somewhat less;
All things that have beginnings, middles, ends-
Petroleum Engineering and Loch Ness.

If I may add a humble note-
A point I scarcely need to prove-
Psycho-kinetic is our Rhetoric;
It has the power to make pens move.

D.M. Catron, University of Tulsa